The welfare state is unsustainable economically, socially and morally.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

More battles being won to the end to the war on drugs

This article contains good news and is well worth the read for those against the war on drugs:

Is it the thin end of the wedge for a policy shift in America's war
on drugs? The announcement last week by Attorney General Eric Holder
that his office will abandon mandatory minimum sentences for some
low-level drug offenders signals not only a rethink towards
"unsustainable" incarceration policies but a wider reappraisal of
entrenched drug policy.
"We must face the reality that, as it
stands, our system is, in too many ways, broken," Holder said. "And with
an outsized, unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure
that incarceration is used to punish, to deter and to rehabilitate - not
merely to warehouse and to forget."

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Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.